those test results of Rachel's that Juliet gets from Ben. what kind of results are those?

They were EKG tracings of the electrical activity in the heart. The only way I can connect the EKG strips with Rachel's cancer is if she had a primary tumor of her heart muscle causing an irregular heartbeat.

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[threadjack]i thought they looked like ekg tests than any cancer tests i've ever heard of or seen. i couldn't figure out how the cancer & ekg tests could go together. thanks versed! [/threadjack]

Juliet's sister appears to have already died from an partial atrioventricular block and myocardial infarction. The AV block would be suggested by a dysconjugation of p waves with the qrs complex...perhaps seen on lead 2. Lead 3 suggests ST depression, evidence of an infarct.

Was rachel already dead?

With the scooping of the ST segments and the AV dissociation with a juncitonal escape (even though the text reads a PR interval of 0.24) and R-R rate of 42, it looks more to me like Digitalis toxicity. I am not sure I could call this an Acute MI from the leads presented as ST depression represents ischemia rather than infarction.

Regardless - it is 1) a prop and 2) impossible to diagnose cancer with an EKG.

those test results of Rachel's that Juliet gets from Ben. what kind of results are those?

They were EKG tracings of the electrical activity in the heart. The only way I can connect the EKG strips with Rachel's cancer is if she had a primary tumor of her heart muscle causing an irregular heartbeat.

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[threadjack]i thought they looked like ekg tests than any cancer tests i've ever heard of or seen. i couldn't figure out how the cancer & ekg tests could go together. thanks versed! [/threadjack]

Juliet's sister appears to have already died from an partial atrioventricular block and myocardial infarction. The AV block would be suggested by a dysconjugation of p waves with the qrs complex...perhaps seen on lead 2. Lead 3 suggests ST depression, evidence of an infarct.

Was rachel already dead?

With the scooping of the ST segments and the AV dissociation with a juncitonal escape (even though the text reads a PR interval of 0.24) and R-R rate of 42, it looks more to me like Digitalis toxicity. I am not sure I could call this an Acute MI from the leads presented as ST depression represents ischemia rather than infarction.

Regardless - it is 1) a prop and 2) impossible to diagnose cancer with an EKG.

Oh DAMN Puff. My girl V just killed ya! What hospital do you work at so I can never go there!